Birthday Dress for Miriam.

So my sisters birthday was a month ago and I just got around to finishing a dress I made for her . . .  I know, I'm working on it.  I used fabric that you might remember from a trip to textile fabrics and the red sash fabric was from my stash.

I hope it fits!  I'm mailing it to her tomorrow!

Front



Clear button with red thread

  It took me forever to pick out buttons.  I have like eleventy billion buttons so it seems ridiculous to go buy new ones.  I decided on these clear ones, you can't really see through the fuzz but they have a crystal look to them.


Dress back



Purse

I've been carrying a super cute silver vintage handbag lately but the silver started flaking off so it was time for a new bag and time to finish a project that had been relegated to the back of the fabric pile.

I used fabric that can be seen here and here:

I used the scraps from those two projects to make this:


You can see that it is pieced together from scraps but in an awesome way, it looks great!

 I used vintage handles from my grandmother's stash.  I even lined it and put little pockets for my phone and wallet.

I like the way it turned out and it is nice when nothing goes to waste.

I feel like a slacker for not posting for so long.  It is not because I have not been busy!  Right now I am making a custom dress for a friend and working on turning a skirt my grandmother gave me into a dress.  I am thinking about doing something like this:

The skirt fabric is sheer but a similar print to the one above.  I just so happen to have some navy lining. . .  Maybe it was meant to be.

Houndstooth Sleeveless Cardigan/Sweaterdress Brainstorm

I bought this awsome fabric during a bit of a fabric shopping spree a few days ago.  I Love it.  I've been trying to decide what it wants to be.  I really don't want to use a pattern, I want to learn to make my own patterns.  A dress form would really help at this point.  I made a 'mockup'  the other night but it didn't come out like I wanted.  I think I'm going to continue to try to tweak the mockup until I have what I want.  Here are some pics from my brainstorming folder.   

The pics are not exactly what I'm going for but its something.  I only have one yard but the fabric is probably close to 60" wide, It should be because it was $30 something dollars a yard (except on sale).  Stay tuned for the finished product.